Although Liu Cong suffered a little physical pain, he didn't take it seriously. He just rode his white horse Snow King and marched all day long, observing the fields along the way. Sometimes he would stop his horse when he saw farmers.

Come to the fields to learn about farming.

In this way, on the afternoon of the seventh day, we arrived at Queweipo Pass.

Liu Cong made an appointment with White Horse Snow King and stood on a high place to observe the geographical situation of Quewei Slope.

It turns out that Quewei Slope is the place name of a mountain pass, which is also a remnant of the Qinba Mountains. After extending here, I don’t know why such a gap was opened in the mountains.

This opening was well opened and directly opened the passage from Yuzhou to Xinye Fancheng.

Why is this passage called a slope?

Because a pass of more than five miles of road is entirely made of natural stone pavement, like a huge stone strip, extending obliquely from the lower slope of the mountain to the top of the mountain. After extending to the top of the mountain, a large open area appeared.

This open area is also entirely made of stone. Looking south along this ground is the official road leading to Xinye.

In the peaceful times, Quewei Slope was very prosperous with constant traffic from north to south.

To this day, despite years of war, there are still three or five inns struggling to hold on here, making the desolate Quewei Slope show some rare vitality.

At this time, Liu Cong was standing on horseback on the open ground on the top of Quewei Slope Ridge, looking towards both sides of the road on Quewei Slope.

I saw that the stone walls on both sides stood upright like a knife or an axe, but they were not high, just as high as the eaves.

On the top of the eaves-like stone walls on both sides, Zhou Cangxing Daorong had already arranged his troops to stop Cao's soldiers.

Cannons, stones and wood were piled up, strong bows and crossbows were displayed, and two flags with white characters on a black background were erected upright on the top of the stone walls on both sides of the stone slope, facing the autumn wind blowing from below the pass, making a loud noise.

It seems that the Jingzhou soldiers stationed on both sides of the stone wall are anxiously waiting for the Cao soldiers to come and fight.

At this time, Zhou Cangxing Daorong, who had already been greeted, stood respectfully beside Liu Cong.

After Liu Cong generally observed the terrain, he dismounted and, surrounded by Zhou Cang Xing Daorong, arrived at Zhou Cang's tent.

As soon as he entered the house and sat down, Zhou Cang Xingdaorong knelt down and saluted Liu Cong.

Liu Cong told Liang Zhu'er to stop him, and said to himself: "No need, no need. Come and sit down quickly and report back the military situation. From now on, we will all be our own people, so these red tapes can be deleted. When we meet, we can directly do practical things and tell the truth, in accordance with military regulations.

There is no need to be wordy when doing things."

Zhou Cang and Xing Daorong stood aside with their hands down somewhat cautiously.

The reason for being cautious is that Liu Cong is their immediate superior, and he has already heard from the scouts that Liu Cong only spent one day in Mushroom Ridge to deal with the two generals sent by Xia Houyuan, and he still had 10,000 cao.

Almost all of the soldiers were made dumplings by Liu Cong.

You must know that Liu Cong commanded 5,000 troops to carry out this clean and tidy battle.

After the war, a large amount of Cao's military supplies were collected.

The grain and weapons were piled up like mountains, and Wei Yan's men and horses could not carry them, so he had to order the Zaoyang County Yamen of Yiyang County to summon civilians to come and carry them.

Also, Liu Cong personally killed the enemy in this battle and snatched a white war horse from the hands of General Cao. This horse was tall and majestic. It walked on the mountain road as if it were on flat ground. When it ran, it was like a white cloud floating in the air.

In the air, the soldiers all suspected that this was a magical horse descending to earth.

When news like this comes, can Zhou Cangxing Daorong not be solemn? Can he not be admired?

When Liu Cong appeared in front of Zhou Cangxing Daorong on a white horse with his soldiers, the two were so frightened by Liu Cong's heroic demeanor that they did not dare to look up. So they entered the Chinese army's tent and waited for Liu Cong to sit down.

Cangxing Daorong is a grand ceremony of lying on the ground.

Liu Cong was a natural person and liked to speak directly when doing things, so he ordered Liang Zhuer to stop the two of them, and then asked about the combat deployment here.

Liu Cong asked: "How is the situation at Xia Houyuan's place?"

Zhou Cang was stroking a messy beard and was looking at Liu Cong nervously, his eyes as big as bells.

When Liu Cong met Zhou Cang before, he knew that although he was a moth thief in his past, he was definitely a good person.

The good guys and the bad guys are all on their faces, no need to talk nonsense like Mr. Physiognomy, who can't see it?

So I developed a good impression of Zhou Cang. I felt that he was a trustworthy, loyal and reliable person. So I transferred him from Guan Yu and entrusted him with important tasks, and arranged for him to lead troops to guard the pass on the front line of Quewei Slope.

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What about Xing Daorong? He was also a good man. He was tall and thick, with a dark red face and a sparse red beard on his face. He was about the same height as Zhou Cang, but not as stocky as Zhou Cang.

When Liu Cong came from Lingling Prefecture Liu Du to transfer Xing Daorong, he also took a fancy to Xing Daorong's good character, a martial artist, absolutely loyal, and like Zhou Cang, he also had great martial arts, so Liu Cong arranged for him to be Zhou Cang's

Cang's deputy came together to guard Queweipo Pass.

Liu Cong knew at that time: "Don't worry about where you put Zhou Cang, Xing Daorong and Daorong. Even if you put them on Quewei Slope, as long as one of them is left, Xia Houyuan will never let Xia Houyuan pass by."

Pass through Quewei Slope, unless this person also dies in battle."

At this time, Zhou Cang Xing Daorong saw Liu Cong asking questions and wanted to answer at the same time. Seeing Zhou Cang speak, Xing Daorong choked back the words he was about to say and stared at Zhou Cang to answer.

Zhou Cang said: "I'm telling you, my lord, according to the scout report, I know that Xiahou Yuan of Yuzhou first clamored all over the world to bring troops to attack Quewei Slope, but he placed 10,000 elite troops outside the west gate of Yuzhou and waited for five days.

, then slowly set out on the road with the horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts recruited from Yuzhou, pulling the grain and grass baggage.

According to our expectation, he is going to Fancheng now, and he has arrived long ago.

But I don't know why, just five days ago, the scouts came over and reported that Xia Houyuan's men had arrived a hundred miles to the north, and actually settled down in the camp.

The two generals didn't know why, so they waited here anxiously.

Yesterday, the scouts came to report again, saying that another large group of Cao soldiers had come out of Yuzhou City. They were walking in a hurry and they estimated that they would reach Xiahouyuan's camp within three days.

Well, this is what the general knows about the enemy."

After listening to this, Liu Cong thought for a while and said to himself: "Isn't that true? I expected Xia Houyuan to do this.

Before he sent out troops, he was clamoring all over the world to come and attack Quewei Slope. The purpose was to mislead our army's attention and mislead our army to only defend on Quewei Slope and not pay attention to the direction of Mushroom Ridge.

He secretly ordered two groups of troops to bypass Mushroom Ridge and surround Xinye from the south.

What he didn't expect was that I set up an ambush in Mushroom Ridge and wiped out all his sneak attack troops at once.

After hearing this military intelligence report, could Xia Houyuan not be suspicious and hesitant?

So, he stopped a hundred miles north and thought about it for a few days. Should he come and attack Quewei Slope? He didn't have enough confidence. Should he withdraw his troops and return to Yuzhou? He was afraid of other people's jokes and Cao Cao's scolding, so he made up his mind.

Come, we have also mobilized the troops stationed in Yuzhou City, and are preparing to join forces and come over to attack Quewei Slope."

Liu Cong thought deeply about this: "There were originally 30,000 troops in Yuzhou City, but I took down 10,000 in Moguling. Now Xia Houyuan has come out in full force again. It seems that he is coming to fight to the death.

Haha, Xia Houyuan, aren't you a little too impatient?"

Thinking of this, Liu Cong smiled slightly, his mind turned, and he suddenly came up with a clever move: "Why don't I send troops here to entangle Xia Houyuan, and send troops there to bypass Mushroom Ridge to sneak attack on Yuzhou City?

At this time, there are almost no soldiers guarding the city of Yuzhou. As long as we send a thousand troops and move quickly, we can capture Yuzhou immediately. Haha, what a brilliant idea."

Liu Cong thought of this with a smile, and immediately rejected his idea: "Forget it, there is no need to use troops rashly now. Judging from the current power in Jingzhou, it is not appropriate to lead troops around.

Yuzhou City, well, just say that Xia Houyuan personally gave it to me, but I don’t want it now!

I just want to regain the lost territory, then repair Jingzhou's internal affairs, develop the economy, and save strength until I have enough troops and food??????

When the time comes, who will be my opponent not only in Yuzhou City, but also in the whole world?"

Therefore, Liu Cong's thoughts returned to reality and asked Zhou Cang: "Where are Xia Houyuan's men and horses at this time?"

"I estimate that we have already crossed the Fearless River, which is only fifty or sixty miles away from us. We will arrive at Songshu Slope this evening.

It is more than ten miles away from Quewei Slope. Mo Jiang estimates that he will stay at Songshu Slope tonight, and Xia Houyuan will bring people over tomorrow to observe the terrain.

Haha, my lord, you will see fighting as soon as you come here!

Let's see how I, Zhou Cang, deal with Xia Houyuan.

Well, Lao Xing has already been anxious to lead his troops to Xiaguan to fight Xia Houyuan."

Zhou Cang glanced sideways at Xing Daorong when he said this, and when he saw Xing Daorong cracked his mouth and smiled, Zhou Cang continued: "I said no! We can't lead the troops to the pass. The lord has given us orders, and told us that as long as we hold the pass

, that is, he has made a great contribution.

Well, with our small number of troops, it is not a problem to hold the pass. If we think about going down to fight with Xia Houyuan's troops, that is not a good sign.

Is the general right? My lord."

Liu Cong was very happy after hearing this and asked: "This is how we feel about the enemy in front of us. How do you two plan to hold the pass?"

"My lord, our army consists of only two thousand troops. You ordered us to hold Quewei Slope for at least ten days. If we cannot hold the pass, we will have to stop Cao's troops from reaching Xinye for five days after we fall.

Well, I remember all these generals.

According to your instructions, Lao Xing and I studied the battle plan. Shall I report it to you now?"

Liu Cong agreed, squinting and smiling, after listening to the battle plan reported by Zhou Cang and Xing Daorong, he thought for a moment, nodded and said: "This plan is feasible, let's implement it. In this way, I will come here this time

, Mainly I want to observe and understand Cao Bing's tactical style, and then test our army's combat capabilities.

I won’t get involved in directing your combat operations. I’ll just watch the enemy’s formation from behind, okay?”

Zhou Cangxing Daorong laughed when he heard this.

Liu Cong continued: "Let me explain to you and let you understand.

The purpose of this battle to regain the lost territory is to conquer Fancheng, regain the lost territory, and exercise our army's combat capabilities so that Cao's soldiers south of Xuchang will not dare to underestimate our army. This will create a stable economic development for our Jingzhou in the next three years.

Surrounding environment.
To be continued...